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The title of this album translates as "Shut up and do what?" subtitled "A Concert for Arno Schmidt" the German author and translator. In 2007, The Arno Schmidt Foundation commissioned five composers to set a selection of quotations from Schmidt's writings to music. Described as an adventure for the ears, each song features counter tenor Denis Lakey with the oh ton-ensemble conducted by Benjamin Lang. The title of this album translates as "Shut up and do what?" subtitled "A Concert for Arno Schmidt" the German author and translator. In 2007, The Arno Schmidt Foundation commissioned five composers to set a selection of quotations from Schmidt's writings to music. Described as an adventure for the ears, each song features counter tenor Denis Lakey with the oh ton-ensemble conducted by Benjamin Lang. Read less